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Glazed bricks applied as a new form of colourful and glossy architectural decor first started to appear in the early Iron Age on monumental buildings of the Ancient Near East. They surely impressed their viewers then as they do museum visitors today. The present volume, Glazed Brick Decoration in the Ancient Near East, comprises the proceedings of a workshop organised by the editors at the 11th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) held in Munich in April 2018. Over the last decade excavations have supplied new evidence from glazed bricks that once decorated the facades of the Ancient Near East’s public buildings during the Iron Age (1000–539 BC) and especially significant progress has been achieved from revived work on glazed bricks excavated more than a century ago which today are kept in various museum collections worldwide. Because the most recent latest summarising works on Ancient Near Eastern glazed architectural décors were published several decades ago, and in the meantime considerable insight into the subject has been gained, this volume aims to provide an updated overview of the development of glazed bricks and of the scientific res

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Author

Anja Fügert and Helen Gries,editors

Publisher

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781789696066

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Architecture, History